Performance and panel discussion: “Politics in Drag: Sipping Toffee with Hamas in Brussels”

5-7pm, Thursday 27 April, R0.12

“Politics in Drag: Sipping Toffee with Hamas in Brussels” is a 45-minute solo performance which re-envisions the European Union’s response to Hamas’s electoral success through a hyperbolic, melancholic and parodic telling of conversations that never took place. Hamas is a movement listed on the EU’s terrorist list and in 2006 the movement won democratic elections, which the EU had monitored and declared to be free and fair. The EU’s response was to diplomatically, financially and politically sanction the elected body, resulting in detrimental effects for Palestinian politics and further aggravating a humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Discussants: Dr Marijn Nieuwenhuis (PAIS), Dr Nicola Pratt (PAIS), Dr Julia Welland (PAIS), and Rory Meade (PAIS UG)

All are welcome!

Please RSVP to Erzsebet Strausz (e.strausz@warwick.ac.uk) so that we have an idea of numbers and/or if you would like to join us for dinner after the performance on Thursday.